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    The surname Shortall

    An Irish surname, carried by 521 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S634

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shortall is more common than 74.3% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Re-Anglicized form of Irish Soirtéil, a Gaelicized form of an obsolete English surname.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 521 people named Shortall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 592,602 Americans. That is down 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 531.

    #41,728
    rank among US surnames
    521
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.9%
    change since 2000 (was #39,052)

    Who is named Shortall

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    97% of people named Shortall identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shortall

    Shortall has the Soundex code S634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S634.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Shortall come from?
    Re-Anglicized form of Irish Soirtéil, a Gaelicized form of an obsolete English surname.
    How common is the surname Shortall?
    521 people in the United States had the surname Shortall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 592,602 Americans. It ranked 41,728th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shortall?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Shortall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Shortall getting more or less common?
    Less common. 531 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 521 in 2010, down 1.9%.